Innovation

IAS officer Shekhar Singh's initiatives helped Maharashtra's Pimpri Chinchwad become the only Indian city to be in the world's top 15 cities shortlisted for the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation.

After seeing a patient struggle to afford surgery in India, Dr Sudhir Srivastava decided to pause his practice. He invested his savings to develop a made-in-India surgical robot SSI Mantra, which has made surgeries cheaper in India.

Attention, changemakers! Need a platform for your innovation? The ‘Quiet Innovators’ contest by The Better India and Shiv Nadar Foundation aims to empower you and help you scale up your impact.

SOURCE, a US-based company founded by Dr. Cody Friesen, is making waves in the renewable energy sector. They have innovated the one-of-a-kind Hydropanel which is a sustainable water technology that uses the power of the sun to extract an clean drinking water from the air.

Leaving his practice, Dr Sudhir Srivastava invested his own money to build the SSI Mantra surgical robot after seeing a patient struggle to afford a vital surgery.

Not just matkas and kulhads, clay can be used to cool homes, build furniture, preserve food, play music, and even purify air. Meet five innovators harnessing the potential of terracotta craft.

Worried about your plants while you are on vacation? Gowtham Reddy, a NID graduate from Hyderabad, created 'Osmos’, a self-watering system for plants that keeps them hydrated for 15 days.

IAS Officer Durga Shakti Nagpal trained the women in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda village with a simple yet effective way of making ‘gobar diyas’ or lamps made of cow dung. Watch this video to know how the initiative is helping women earn extra income this Diwali.

Uday Bhatia, a Class 12 student from Delhi, has built a sustainable lighting solution for rural India. His 'Uday Electric' bulbs provide a power backup of 8-10 hours in case of a power cut.

An IIT Guwahati team, led by Professor Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, has developed a device that detects the glycemic index in food items in minutes. This will help diabetics manage their blood sugar levels.